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I was supposed to be taking the weekend off of social media, but I logged in tonight (of course) and saw the #YesAllWomen hashtag going crazy on Twitter. I added my own:

When a woman makes a video, most comments are about tearing apart her looks. Or if they’d “do” her. With a man, almost none. #YesAllWomen

— Felicia Day (@feliciaday)

May 26, 2014

To which a lot of people responded supportively (including awesome YouTube creators like Freddie Wong and the Fine Brothers) and then I got a ton of “Unfollow”, and sarcastic “#menhateday” and “Oh yeah, all men are terrible”. Which makes me a) Who cares if they’re gonna unfollow me because of that, they are clearly people I don’t need to be appealing to anyway, and  b) and c) Oh gosh, do I even have to call out the ridiculous exaggeration? Or how sad it is that they missed the point, and the possibility to maybe see things from someone else’s point of view for a change?

So anyway, there are amazing comments around that hashtag, and you should check it out. But the one that got me the most was a recurring comment by a lot of women about how “it’s easier to tell a guy that you have a boyfriend so they’ll leave you alone. Because they respect a guy they’ve never met more than you.” 

(Which is so sad and true, and every girl knows it in her bones as the way to deal with some horribly obnoxious person at a bar.)

But for me,the flip side is also true: How sad it is if you’re talking to a guy in a social situation, having a really fun conversation, and then somehow it comes up you have a boyfriend, and theydrop you like a hot potato. Like, I’ve literally had a person say, “Boyfriend”? And WALK AWAY MID-SENTENCE. 

Oh, and then I’ve had it happen that the guy acts like you were LYING to them by HAVING A FUN CONVERSATION AND BEING INTERESTING. HOW DARE I BE FUN IF IM NOT WILLING TO FALL IN LOVE/AND OR HAVE SEX WITH THEM?!?!  I mean…sigh. 

I am a person who has always had a ton of guy friends, and the fact that there are many social situations where I’m not worth talking to as a person because I am not sexually available makes me so sad. For myself, and for the friendships that could be, but will never happen because to them, I’m only there for a possible hook up.

Once I came home from a party crying after such an incident, telling my boyfriend, “Men and women can’t be friends, I guess.” Which is totally not true, but when an incident happens like that a few times…it makes you less willing to even reach out and try to connect. Or worse, you strangely spurt out the word “BOYFRIEND!” in a reflexive way within the first two sentences of meeting someone, because you don’t want to be rejected later for “not being honest”. Which feels so wrong and is so messed up when you think about it, that it’s a girl’s “responsibility”. Might as well wear a stamp on your forehead, huh? 

And that’s my long #YesAllWomen comment. I hope a few people can relate, because sometimes I think I’m just crazy haha.

And for the record, I am very happy to have many guy friends in my life who have NEVER done that. I love them dearly. Platonically, of course. :)

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Til now i always got by on my own. I never really cared until i met you. And now it chills me to the bone. How do i get you alone?

Heart

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Because I miss my campers. Because my brother let me hear this and suddenly one day it’s become all too awesome to not ever love… 

Yay dashboard for happy memories. Also because covering songs is now cathartic to me. 

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Stolen - Dashboard Confessional Cover

We interrupt Jason Robert Brown and Disney Week with this song I know for sure captures what I feel for my summer campers. Yes they have stolen my heart. Yes they still have it. 

Also I OBVIOUSLY didn't write this. But it means everything right now. Yes campers. You are the best ones of the best ones. And that night, we really all did look like we felt. For the feels. 

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Because Tumblr allows only 1 Audio upload a day: Soundcloud. Everyone Wins.

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Lamest Place in The World - Jason Robert Brown Cover (13 the Musical)

Figure I'd kick it off with this song. I did a guy version because I wanted to put this in a revue. I'm looking at you Lara and Aldrich. Haha... Miss you crazy campers. Also I love this song. 

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Jason Robert Brown and Disney Week

We interrupt our sadfest (or rather my Farewell to Sadness indie online album thing) to make room for Jason Robert Brown and Disney week. 

Yes. All week. JRB and Disney. As much as I can stand to record. Of course it's thursday and i've been down with asthma. Yes it's back. Horrible. But that don't stop me from doing the one thing that counteracts the evil vibes which is singing. 

And so here it is. A whole slew of fun songs. Therapeutic in the singing of same and fun too. Loads of fun. And also because the acoustic thing is so not me apparently. haha.

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Mystery - Indigo Girls

This is the start of my farewell to sadness indie cover album haha. 3 songs by the indigo girls. my "not so one take sessions". haha.. again. for my campers. because we all have the feels. I hand you this song. The only other original indigo girls song that brings the pain. I will switch to broadway next week. Jason Robert Brown! and disney!

But for now I leave you with this. More on my "farewell to sadness" album where I bid goodbye to the gloomy prehistoric emo days some other time.  Ciao.

Mystery - Indigo Girls

Each time you'd pull down the driveway

I wasn't sure when I would see you again

Yours was a twisted, blind-sided highway

No matter which road you took then

Oh you set up your place in my thoughts

Moved in and made my thinking crowded

Now we're out in the back with the barking dogs

My heart the red sun, your heart the moon clouded

{Refrain}

I could go crazy on a night like tonight

When summer's beginning to give up her fight

And every thought's a possibility

And voices are heard, but nothing is seen

Why do you spend this time with me

May be an equal mystery

So what is love then, is it dictated

Or chosen - Handed down or made by hand

Does it sing like the hymns of a thousand years

Or is it just pop emotion - Handed down or made by hand

And if it ever was there, and it left

Does it mean it was never true

And to exist it must elude

Is that why I think these things of you

Oh, but you like the taste of danger

It shines like sugar on your lips

And you like to stand in the line of fire

Just to show you can shoot straight from your hip

There must be a thousand things you would die for

I can hardly think of two

But not everything is better spoken aloud

Not when I'm talking to you

Oh, the pirate gets the ship and the girl tonight

Breaks a bottle to christen her

Basking in the exploits of her thief

She's a very good listener

And maybe that's all that we need is to meet in the middle

Of impossibility

Standing at opposite poles

Equal partners in a mystery - Handed down or made by hand

We're standing at opposite poles

Equal partners in a mystery 

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Love Will Come to You - Indigo Girls 

To my love starved Campers. I sing this over you with a little more confidence than the actual writers when they wrote it for whomever. Love will indeed come to you. I’m posting this for the feels. And because my bestest best friend/cousin/sister sang this over me because she knows I’m a bloody labrador when it comes to needing love and attention. Face pressed up against the petshop window begging for love… yeah. You are my tribe if this is you. And love will come to you… 

“Love Will Come to You”

Guess I wasn’t the best one to ask

Me myself with my face pressed 

Up against love’s glass

To see the shiny toy I’ve been hoping for

The one I never could afford

The wide world spins and spits turmoil

And the nations toil for peace

But the paws of fear upon your chest

Only love can soothe that beast

And my words are paper tigers

No match for the predators of pain inside her

I say love will come to you

Hoping just because I spoke the words that they’re true

As if I offered up a crystal ball to look through

Where there’s now one there will be two

I was born under the sign of cancer

(Love will come to you)

Like brushing cloth I smooth the wrinkles for an answer

(Love will come)

I’m always closing my eyes and wishing I’m fine

(I close my eyes and wish you fine)

Even though I know I’m not this time

(Even though I know your not this time)

I say love will come to you

Hoping just because I spoke the words that they’re true

As if I offered up a crystal ball to look through

Where there’s now one there will be two

Dodging your memories a field of knives

Always on the outside looking in on other’s lives

I say love will come to you

Hoping just because I spoke the words that they’re true

As if I offered up a crystal ball to look through

(I have offered up to you)

Where there’s now one there will be two

And I wish her insight to battle love’s blindness

Strength from the milk of human kindness

A safe place for all the pieces that scattered

Learn to pretend there’s more than love that matters

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Maybe that's all that we need is to be in he middle of impossibility. And we're standing on opposite poles, equal partners in a mystery.

Mystery - indigo girls

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Ghost - Indigo Girls (Emily Saliers)

I did not write this song. The Indigo Girls did. This was one of the songs that marked an entire chapter of my life. That chapter's done. The song has endured to help ease more people through difficult times. Campers, this is for you. 

Lyrics: 

There's a letter on the desktop that I dug out of a drawer 

The last truce we ever came to from our adolescent war 

And I start to feel the fever of the warm air through the screen 

You come regular like seasons shadowing my dreams 

The Mississippi's mighty, but it starts in Minnesota 

At a place where you can walk across with five steps down 

And I guess that's how you started like a pinprick to my heart 

But at this point you rush right through me and I start to drown 

There's not enough room in this world for my pain 

Signals crossed and love gets lost and time passed makes it plain 

Of all my demon spirits I need you the most 

I'm in love with your ghost 

I'm in love with your ghost 

Dark and dangerous like a secret it gets whispered in a hush (don't tell a soul) 

And when I wake the things I dreamt about you last night make me blush (don't 

Tell a soul) 

When you kiss me like a lover and you sting me like a viper 

I go follow to the river play your memory like the piper 

And I feel it like a sickness how this love is killing me 

But I would walk into the fingers of your fire willingly 

Dance the edge of sanity I've never been this close 

In love with your ghost 

Unknowing captor you'll never know how much you 

Pierce my spirit but I can't touch you 

Can you hear it a cry to be free 

Oh I'm forever under lock and key 

As you pass through me 

Now I see your face before me; I would launch a thousand ships 

To bring your heart back to my island as the sand beneath me slips 

I burn up in your presence and I know now how it feels 

To be weakened like Achilles with you always at my heels 

This bitter pill to swallow is the silence that I keep 

It poisons me I can't swim free the river is too deep 

Though I'm baptized by your touch I am no worse at most 

In love with your ghost 

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 dark days... now fading

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But then most of all.. I do love you.. Still

Still - lionel richie

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Through it all.. When you tell me I'm the only one you need.. Sweet anf tenderly.. And your love.. Just breaks away the cloud surrounding me.. Baby all I have I wanna give to thee...

Music Box - Mariah Carey

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